Let me ask this Mariotti question....Updated by Moddy.

While Mariotti's paper has done itself dirt through all this, I have to wonder about the agenda of the corner office, from the SE on up. Looks like they're giving Mariotti enough rope -- make that an industrial-size spool -- to hang himself. But if they wanted him gone, why couldn't they just show him the door before this embarrassing episode?

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Verbal: The Sun-Times lets Mariotti go. They wait until his wife and kids are in the ground and then they go after the rest of the mob. They kill his kids, They kill his wive\, they kill his parents and his parents' friends. They burns down the house he lives in and the stores they work in, they kill people that owe them money. And like that they were gone. Underground. Nobody has ever seen Mariotti since. He becomes a myth, a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night. "Rat on us, and The Sun-Times will get you." And no-one ever really believes.

I’ve got a lot of reporters jealous of me. To hell with them,â€ Mariotti told me. â€œI call those reporters â€˜housemen.’ They need to take care of themselves and break some stories in town.â€

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I'd like to say I'm amazed.. but with all that he's said this week, i can't....
What a spiteful little bitch he is...

What about that? host Phil Ponce asked Mariotti Monday evening on Chicago Tonight. Mariotti replied that â€œBlizzard of Ozâ€ is clever and harmless. As for â€œBig Skirtâ€—it somehow vanished in Mariotti’s own blizzard of words. â€œIf you’ve read my column I haven’t complained about me being called this name [fag],â€ he told Ponce. â€œI am detaching myself from it and looking at the manager of the White Sox who used a slur a year ago and—these are serious issues now, Phil—and why the commissioner of baseball would only give him a fine, which is probably light, and sensitivity training. . . . If this is all Ozzie is going to do, if this is just a silly little thing, then what is Ozzie going to gain out of it?â€